Norman Dunbar wrote, on 17/Oct/12 09:47 | Oct17:
Norman/
> You need a good ringlight magnifier and 1mm soldering iron.
That set-up, even with my old eyes, allowed soldering of the .5mm pitch
pins on Romdisq.
Well, I have a "helping hands" with a decent magnifying glass that I
used and a geologists 30* illuminated Loupe.
I was soldering my Gerboard last night and it has 20 surface mount
components to do, got they are tiny p- about 3 mm by 1 mm for a pile
(10) capacitors. Took me ages, and I dropped two of them as well. Took
ages to find them.
I don't have a ringlight, but mu head torch (LED) works fine when
positioned on the circuit board close to where I'll be sticking a hot iron!
I managed 15 SMDs last night, 5 to go! Took over an hour. This is my
first foray into SMDs - I can't say I'm keen, they are too damned small
and even getting them out of the packaging is tense.
These is a good trick. I use solder braid (Chemwik Lite - or something
like that).
This makes the initial soldering easy, as any pin shorts are sucked away.
... so when soldering .5mm pitch pins, one does not worry unduly about
initial shorts.
Tony
--
[email protected] http://firshman.co.uk
Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman
TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
_______________________________________________
QL-Users Mailing List
http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
